The Bad Too

 If you think that you have to be perfect for anyone to want you, or you think you are simply never enough, I refer you to the Seventh Step of the AA Recovery program.  In part it prays, “ I am now willing that you have all of me, good and bad.”  Apparently, this step in a recovery from Alcoholism says that imperfection if fine with the Higher Power.  I think that God loves us not because we are good but because God has decided to love us.  So we can surrender ourself just as we are to God. We don’t have to be perfect to be loved.  No one is perfect.  It is a fantasy.  So give God you as you are each day and especially when you mess up, but are entirely ready to become a better person.